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Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. [Obs.] Let's get the bedlam to lead him. Shak.

A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [U. S.]

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

A fine genius, or man of wit. "A man of letters and a bel esprit." W. Irving.

are worthy of entire confidence; -- especially that his promises are wholly trustworthy. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." John xiv. 1. (c) To believe that the qualities or effects of an action or state are beneficial: as, to believe in sea bathing, or in abstinence from alcoholic…

or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott.

e hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that bree…

Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. [Obs.] Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend. Fletcher.

A drunken spree. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

To reduce to prose. [R.] "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.

uare cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison.

Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.

The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, b. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. Beta (B, b) is used variously for classifying, as:

oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

To drench or souse with water. "Let the maids bewash the men." Herrick.

To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.

of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher.